Re:Show HN: Is the stock market going to crash?
by truffle_pig on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:17AM
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Good point, I think I will go into a bit more detail as to how the risk factor is calculated.
Yeah seems like I might need to go into a bit more depth explaining the rationale behind each indicator. I'm open to including different indicators too.
However, I have two suggestions. First, the numeric rankings (such as "5.5 / 10") need context: why not say something like "10 is the highest value reached in the historical record"?
Second, the explanations you give for chosing these indicators need a bit of work, as evidenced by some of the comments and questions on this thread. Most lay readers won't understand why the ratio of total stock market capitalization to annual GDP is important.